Fire risk assessment! I have a timber shed in my garden, next to a timber fence, wooden decking and trees. I will not be changing them. I actually BBQ near to all that timber - no fires yet. Wendy house, do the children play at cooking with pretend gas/electric equipment? Do they pretend to smoke cigarettes/cigars? If so carry out a pretend fire risk assessment and see what the pretend main findings are. Then decide whether to change the building materials. Happy Friday

Are you allowed to call them Wendy houses now? No Chris, the kids don't pretend to smoke in the Wendy house, they have to go outside to pretend to smoke... That is, those that aren't wearing pretend patches! ;-)

Go away, get a life and stop giving H&S professionals a bad reputation with such behaviour. What would you do if someone came in and asked what provisions have you made with regard to a gunman entering your creche. This is a factual story and I was the one who had to deal with the traumatised owner after "an expert from the local health board" asked the question. The reaction of the local police had to be seen to be believed, they totally freaked out and demanded to know "what intelligence" the person had based their question on as they were concerned that the health board had information about a potentially disturbed person in the area. Unbelieveable!!

It that sense of humor from a Mod? It must be Friday.

What am i supposed to do with my tree house?? And my rocking horse!! No not the wife!

is there a chance of the wooden shed being torched possibly but at the end of the day it's only advice given by the fire safety consultant (which is possibly over the top) as the responsible person you can either take that advice or ignore it. I would ignore it as it seems daft to rip down a shed on the off chance some one might target it for arson to have to pay the cost of a new metal shed. leave the shed as it is if it gets burnt down then replace it with a metal shed if it doesn't get burnt down then all the better. no matter what the shed is made of the contents will still burn so it's going to make little difference. there is no law or fire service that is going to state you must have a metal shed or will even consider prosecuting you for it. i would look at the rest of the FRA and see if the advice is generally proportionate to the risks if it is then just ignore the shed comment if you believe the recommendation out weight the risks then take it up with the person that carried out the fire risk assessment. Phil

Just to add FRA primarily look at life protection and not property so a shed is unlikely to affect life unless someone is living in there or there are particularly hazardous substances which need better security should they be involved in a fire. What commenst did the assessor make around fire detection, staff training, fire seperation maintenance and documentation which are more important and vital than a shed. Phil

Just a few beers Matty? your RA is insufficent, i can forward you a robust RA if required?

"A nursery has been told due to risk assessment, that the wooden shed they have must be replaced by a metal or concrete shed to take away any arson/fire risk." Can't really argue with the statement as it stands. Whether it's RP or otherwise worthwhile is up to the client, right? Are we suffering from a little inverted 'conkers/bonkers'

Grange Hill? Err, that was on TV... OK, I know you know that.... :-) John